The weather is cooperating and helping us replenish supplies. The speculative frenzy that followed the hurricanes has cooled down. Lower refinery operating rates have led to rising crude-oil stocks as products have arrived from elsewhere.

The market has been kind of playing Russian roulette with the weather, ... If the weather stays mild and continues to cooperate, $55 to $56 a barrel is probably reasonable.

(The) energy complex remains very sensitive to cold weather stories, which suggests that the potentially rising prices remain alive, just under the surface,

I'm ready for some warm weather. Spring has fooled us.

Depending on the weather sometimes he has a scarf. If it's been awhile, like a lot of us were gone over the summer, we feed him when we get back.

We currently have a sustained operational atmospheric observing system that has enabled us to dramatically improve atmospheric weather forecasts. We have invested in operational ocean observing systems in the Pacific that have enabled us to provide successful El Ni–o-based seasonal atmospheric forecasts. This report calls on us to take the next step and expand the operational systems to the global ocean.